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I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies.
“Newspapers are owned and published by rich men. Rich men all belong to the same club. Sure, there’s competition – hard, tough competition for circulation, for newsbeats, for exclusive stories.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“To say good-bye is to die a little.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“In Hollywood anything can happen, anything at all.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“Hell does not exist as a permanent state somewhere underground, where the damned suffer eternal torture. It is more like a nightmare. A dream in which an elephant tramples you comes about because of a number of conditions—first of all sleep, and perhaps you have some negative history with elephants. It doesn’t matter how long the nightmare lasts; during that time you are in hell. Then, because of the causes and conditions of an alarm clock or because you simply have finished sleeping, you wake up. The dream is a temporary hell, and it is not unlike our concepts of a “real” hell.”
― What Makes You Not a Buddhist
― What Makes You Not a Buddhist
Yuan’s 2025 Year in Books
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